jog dial
 

ANyone know if you can configure Linux to use the jogdial as a 3rd mouse button - don't care about being able to scroll, just need that middle mouse button!!!

When I installed RH 8.0 and then 7.3 (see earlier post!!!) it seemed to think that I had a 3 button PS/2 mouse installed, so thought clicking the jogdail might have worked. Have tried the imps/2 protocol in XF86Config-4, to no avail.... :-(

Any clues??

Thanks.

Hi skoorbj,

You can try to put these lines in your XF86Config-4 file:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" " "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate 3Buttons" "yes"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

does this work for you???
 

I tried setting the mouse protocol to "imps/2" in
XF86Config-4 with no joy - if it worked surely I wouldn't
need to emulate 3 buttons???

Cheers,

Jon.

Yes it works for me :), as a button, and as a scroll;

try to set in mouseconfig tehe protocol Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)

I read somewhere (can't remember now) that some mouse types don't work right with this module, but the problem was only the scroll.

see ya

weird!
 

Hi VladKrack

Here's the relevant sections of my XF86Config file (RH8 has dropped the -4)?? Unless I'm looking in the wrong place!

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

So first off I was really suprised to see 2 entries. If I change the protocol entry for Mouse0 to "IMPS/2" as you suggested and reboot then the mouse moves really erratically - jumping all over the place!!!

Any suggestions? Anyone?


Jon.

Hi,

At least for what I know, XF86Config was a configuration file for XFree86 v3, and XF86Config-4 are for XFree86-4.x.x., but if is it working for you, it's a wise option to keep it ...

About your two entries "Mouse0" and "Mouse1" they are usualy used to have 2 mouses at same screen, but, if you want to know what of then your system is using, look at the first section, it will be something like:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

Have you already tried # mouseconfig?

got it working....read on
 

Hi,

Thanks Vladkrack, though in the end the solution was not
editing XF86Config, but enabling a kernel module (sonypi) that
did the trick.

Running RH7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3

First I put the following two lines into /etc/modules.conf

options sonypi minor=61
alias char-major-10-61 sonypi

rebooted

then running lsmod shows "sonypi" in the list of loaded modules

then you need to download sonypid from someplace on the net
(alcove?) I forget where - p.s. various people have hacked
sonypid to make the jogdial do what ever they want it to.

Compile sonypid and run it with sonypid & then you can use the
jogdial as a middle mouse button.

What a pain in the arse!!!!

Yours,

Jon.

My computer is GR390, but the sound card doesn't work properly, when I play a song, the sound pause and again. How can I make it works well?

not sure this has anything to do with jogdial
 

Hi,

I have read that using ALSA is the way to get sound configured,
though I don't have any personal experience of this.

It seems like getting acpi to work may also be a prerequisite.

Yours,

Jon.

ACPI does not work properly. When I try to configure it in system control center, it says ACPI maybe have start-up, but not work properly.
SuSE8.1 have installed ALSA and OSS together, should I must reinstall by myself?

When x-server 4.x starts it first look for a XF86Config and if that doesn´t exist it looks for an XF86Config-4 (or the other way round, can´t remember....)

you're right
 

Jon

Hi

I just found this thread, and I would like to achieve exactly the opposit that you guys achieved. I have a Vaio, and the 2.6.11 kernel. For me, I didnt need to set anything, just load the sonypi module, and scrolling and jogdial press works as a middle mouse button. Now, when I want to use some jogdial-app, like rsjog, or sjog, and when I press the jogdial, the menu pops up, and also it acts as a middle mouse button. So two things at the same time. I think that from 2.6.9 kernel, the middle mouse button and scroll is by default. So now, something is already listening to the jogdial, and when I load the optional application, rsjog, it will also listen to it. So when I press it, it will execute two things. Really annoying. Any ways to disable the default middle mouse clicking from the jogdial?

Thanks

Bence